Key legal question
Whether the refusal to recuse President Mario Bernasconi violated judicial impartiality guarantees
Extracted holding
The recusal refusal did not violate the constitutional or Convention right to an impartial tribunal.
Extracted reasoning
The alleged conflict arose mainly from the relationship between the judge and the complainants' lawyer; no objectively sufficient circumstances showed an appearance of bias, and the objection to the panel's composition was raised too late.